37 Today!

My god, this feels really old! I cannot lie I was quite ok with 36, but 37 feels like that awful push towards 40! Anyway I have tried to lighten the mood by having a look at some film related trivia and that at 37 years old the following actors took on some rather impressive film roles!

Jack Nicholson in Chinatown (1974)Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944)Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity (1953)

Let’s quote Tennesse Williams incredible ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ with truly iconic delivery by Vivien Leigh “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

Happy Birthday to me.

Top 10 – Films I Caught Up With in 2015

I really do try to catch up with films that I have not seen before each year (and yes I still have a massive number of DVDs that have been sitting on my shelf for films I still haven’t watched yet) as I find this often to be such a good break from the films that are released at the cinema, as let’s face it certain times of year we seem to be getting the same thing over and over again and we all know March/April are awful months at the cinema. That was also why I set up the Best Picture Project in order to increase the quality of some of the films I watch. I think some of that will be clear in these 10 films I have picked that I am now pleased I have caught up with!

I always find the best thing about doing this top 10 list is that people are always shocked that I had never seen certain films up until this (or now last year).

I haven’t included any of the Bond films in the list but thought it was very appropriate to make sure that I mentioned that 2015 was the year that I officially caught up and have now seen every single Bond film! Something which was very trying and testing but I managed to complete the challenge of my Bondathon!

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Chinatown (1974) Review

J.J. is a private detective who thinks that a simple case of adultery is like something he has seen before, little does he know that he will become tangled in a web of lies, deceit, corruption and oh yeah murder!

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